Capuchin monastery in Bamberg
The Kapuzinerkloster Bamberg is a former monastery of the Capuchins in Bamberg in Bavaria in the diocese of Bamberg .
history
The monastery consecrated to Saints Heinrich and Kunigunde was founded in 1636 by the Bamberg Bishop Georg Franziskus von Hatzfeld and dissolved in 1804 in the course of secularization .
From January 17 to 26, 1766, the Capuchin Order General Paul von Colindres from Spain stayed here as a guest. During a visit, the atmosphere of the convent made such a lasting impression on the writer ETA Hoffmann that he chose the Bamberg monastery as a central location for the plot of his 1815 novel The Elixirs of the Devil .
It was demolished in the 19th century and an agricultural and trade school was built in its place, and a secondary school was built in 1877. Today's Clavius Gymnasium has been located there since 1965 .
Web links
- Kapuzinerkloster Bamberg , basic data and history: The Capuchins in Bamberg - preachers and drapers in the database of monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History
Individual evidence
- ^ Tag-Blatt der Stadt Bamberg , p. 125 of the year 1853; (Digital scan)
Coordinates: 49 ° 53 ′ 54.4 ″ N , 10 ° 54 ′ 48.5 ″ E